Tuesday, February 3, 2026

"I am lucky and fortunate to be a breast cancer survivor," writes letter writer Pattie Coplin. "Many women refuse to take a proactive role against breast cancer and ignore the situation completely."

A barn is more than a place to house crops, machinery and livestock. A "management plan" will help you maintain your investment.

Extension dairy agent Tom Noyes gets back to basics in this week's Dairy Excel column.

An Indiana reader objects to recent article that pushed pasture over forestland.

Don't spread e-mail hoaxes. Check them out first.

Antique columnist Roy Booth writes there were plenty of things to do - both around the home, barn and fields - on the farms of old.

Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb writes about the joys of doing for others through the annual Crop Walk, although this year, others will be "doing for her," and pushing her wheelchair.

Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt says the anti-smoking warriors and the surgeon general just don't get it: Teens are immortal.

Each week Farm and Dairy takes a look at what was making news in years gone by.

Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.